The illustrations are revealing enough that librarians across the country once drew underwear and blotted out the offending genitalia.

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At the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, war-crimes trials are screened in full, usually with a 30-minute buffer so that sensitive statements can be blotted out.

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Some think that the ten-kilometre meteorite that created it threw so much dust into the atmosphere that it blotted out the sun and led to the extinction of the dinosaurs.

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The youngest of seven children, he was born, in 1911, in Gamaliya, a 1, 000-year-old quarter whose densely packed and labyrinthine lanes were overhung by balconies that blotted out the daylight.

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When painting the start of the stripe at Checkpoint Charlie, a former east- west border-crossing where new building has almost entirely blotted out the past, Eberhard Diepgen, Berlin's mayor, felt obliged to calm unease by declaring that there was no intention to split the city again.

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Since no dinosaur fossils have ever been found in sediments dating from after this point, conventional wisdom has it that the largest creatures ever to roam the earth must have been cut down in their prime - victims of an asteroid impact that sparked firestorms, acid rain and a nuclear winter that blotted out the sun.

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